Great Sage said:
I'll repeat what I said in the presidential election thread. A newborn is, for all intents and purposes, a parasite. People have the right to get rid of parasites from their bodies. Let's say someone with a ringworm touches you and you get ringworm; who / what deserves to be destroyed, the person or the ringworm
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God said:
that being said, living standards in say maoist china were still a deal better than their living standards in their previous, western-capitalist influenced societies.
Between the Great Leap Forward, (up to 43 million dead from famine), the Cultural Revolution (essentially purging China of intellectual talent and destroying its cultural heritage), widespread cannibalism, widespread political persecution, I'd say that's a big improvement in living standards (especially when you consider that Republican China was fairly awful too, at least until they took over Taiwan.)
I am not going to assume you're a total idiot, so I'm going to assume that you
lied because you're fucking obsessed with a failed system that has been a failure everywhere it's been tried, so you gloss over historical facts and blame "capitalists" for everything, while at the same time constantly making excuses for why socialism failed so hard everywhere its been tried, where free-market capitalism (which is not really what we have now, it's more like a cross betweeen free-market capitalism and corporate mercantilism) has been successful almost everywhere. (and if you say "any country in Africa" I will mention that most African countries were more or less socialist for most of their history).
I mean seriously - in big bad USA a family at the poverty line probably has as much buying power as the family making median income in China, and they kick the shit out of a median-income family in Cuba or North Korea. But oh right "capitalist exploitation" - it's like a magic word that explains everything - just say "capitalist exploitation" and it ends the argument for a socialist.
Whatever though, keep on believing that we can steal money from people and violate basic economic principles - when you actually have to make your own money, or at least understand the basic workings of making your own money, you might see things differently.
Men can't get pregnant, therefore men can't bitch about pro-life.
er, so if i think you're killing babies I can't say something about it because I'm incapable of having babies to kill?